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BROTHER LAWRENCE
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME IN
The New Kingship Series
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How the Itmer Light Failed
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, , Hesba Stretton
Annie S. Swan
Mrs. O. P. Walton
Little
Laddie
J. Cole
King Davie
Christie's
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Old Organ
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By the author of "Miss Toosey's Mission"
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Smma
Gellibrand
Mrs. O. F. Walton
Mrs. O. F. Walton
Nellie Hellis
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The
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a Dream.
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Josephine Rand
Charles M. Sheldon
Charles M. Sheldon
Judge A. W. Tenny
Charles M. Sheldon
What th» Wind Did ? . . . . Amy Le Feuvre
Fr«n Girldhood to Womanhood Mary Lowe Dickinson
Waxwing
How to Learn How
The Shepard Psalm .
Kept for the Master's Use
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Caroline A. Mason, author of "Little Gi een God"
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Henry Drummond
Frances Ridley Havergal
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F. B. Meyer
Brother Lawrence
The Practice of the Presence of God the
best rule of a Holy Life
Nicholas Herman
of Lorraine
(Brother Lawrence)
1$
Copyright, 1895,
by C
NOrE:
" 'Brother Lawrence '
' may also be had tn a
cheaper form for distribution under the title of
" the Vractice of the T^resence of God. l^aper.
24mo, 8 cents.
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INTRODUCTION
" But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from
the simplicity that is in Christ."— 2 Cor. xi. 3.
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The "Conversations" are supposed to have been
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CONVERSATIONS
FIRST CONVERSATION
broke everything.
That he had desired to be received into a monastery,
thinking that he would there be made to smart for his
awkwardness and the faults he should commit, and so
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in being devoted to Him.
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That we ought to quicken i.e., to enliven our faith.
That it was lamentable we had so little and that in-
;
SECOND CONVERSATION
That he had always been governed by love, without
selfish views and that having resolved to make the love
;
THIRD CONVERSATION
He told me that Xht foundation of the spiritual life in
him had been a high notion and esteem of God in faith
which when he had once well conceived, he had no
other care at first but faithfully to reject every other
thought, that he might perform all his actions for the love
of God. That when sometimes he had not thought of
God for a good while, he did not disquiet himself for
it but, after having acknowledged his wretchedness to
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getting Him.
That the trust we put in God honors Him much and
draws down great graces.
That it was impossible not only that God should
deceive, but also that He should long let a soul suffer
which is perfectly resigned to Him, and resolved to
endure everything for His sake.
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fit for him to do. That of late he had acted thus, with-
out anticipating care ; but before the experience above
mentioned, he had used it in his affairs.
FOURTH CONVERSATION
it, and never failed of it, unless when his thoughts had
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eternity.
That when we enter upon the spiritual life, we should
consider and examine to the bottom what we are. And
then we should find ourselves worthy of all contempt,
and not deserving indeed the name of Christians sub- ;
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LETTERS
FIRST LETTER
Yours, etc
LETTERS
SECOND LETTER
To the Reverend
Not finding my manner of life in books, although I
have no difficulty about it, yet, for greater security, I
shall be glad to know your thoughts concerning it.
In a conversation some days since with a person of
piety, he told me was a Hfe of grace,
the spiritual life
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he means that all distinct notions he coold form of
God were nnsatisfactory, because he perceived them to be oa-
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to make a statue ;
presenting myself thus before God, I
Him to form His perfect image
desire in my and
soul,
make me entirely like Himself.
At other times, when I apply myself to prayer, I
feel all my spirit and all my soul lift itself up without
any care or effort of mine, and it continues as it were
suspended and firmly fixed in God, as in its center and
place of rest.
THIRD LETTER
sions. For about thirty years his soul has been filled
Yours, etc.
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LETTERS «'
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FIFTH LETTER
Beg of God that she may make her sacrifice in the view
of His love alone, and with a firm resolution to be
wholly devoted to Him. I will send you one of these
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books, which treat of the presence of God, a subject
which, in my opinion, contains the whole spiritual life
and it seems to me that whoever duly practises it will
soon become spiritual.
SIXTH LETTER
God, laying aside all other cares, and even some par-
ticular forms of devotion, though very good in them-
selves, yet such as one often engages in unreasonably,
because these devotions are only means to attain to the
end. So when by this exercise of the presence of God
we are with Him who is our end, it is then useless to
return to the means ; but we may continue with Him
our commerce of love, persevering in His holy pres-
ence, one while by an act of praise, of adoration, or of
desire ;one while by an act of resignation or thanksgiv-
ing ; and in all the ways which our spirit can invent.
Be not discouraged by the repugnance which you may
find in it from nature you must do yourself violence*
;
At the first one often thinks it lost time, but you must
go on, and resolve to persevere in it to death, notwith-
standing all the difficulties that may occur. I recom-
mend myself to the prayers of your holy society, and
yours in particular* I am, in our Lord,
Yours, etc.
SEVENTH LETTER
LETTERS
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LETTERS
EIGHTH LETTER
NINTH LETTER
TENTH LETTER
ELEVENTH LETTER
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TWELFTH LETTER
THIRTEENTH LETTER
[To the Same)
FOURTEENTH LETTER
{To the Same)
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FIFTEENTH LETTER
(To the Same)
God knoweth best what is needful for us, and all that
He does is for our good. If we knew how much He
loves us, we should always be ready to receive equally
and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the
bitter. All would please that came from Him. The
sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, except when
we see them in the wrong light. When we see them
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i Yours, etc.
* He took to his bed two days after, and died within the week.
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